Barbara Lawson visited Sue Arnold recently.
Congratulations to Margaret Vanatta, her name was drawn on WJLE birthday club for roses from DeKalb Florist Monday.
Visitors of Lu Autry Malone were Joyce Wright and Wanda Tramel. They spent Friday and Saturday night.
Visitors of Betty Wilson were Ralph Vaughn of Murfreesboro, Faye Adkins, Jo Dean Redmon, JoAnn Pittman and Sarge Bowman.
Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Pease and Heaven of Alabama spent a few days with Mr. and Mrs. Artie Daw and Nicholas Daw.
Billie Simpson visited Anita and Cloie Braswell recently.
JoAnn Pittman and Angie Meadows visited Charles Ayers, Ressie Taylor and Pam Williams in NHC Nursing Home Sunday evening.
Jerry and Linda Snow of Nashville came up Sunday and got his mother Martha Snow and took her to Center Hill Restaurant. He reserved a table for her birthday dinner and her grandchildren from Nashville joined them.
Wayne, Jone and Corey Ferrell and friends Bailey and Cortney visited Louise Jones Saturday evening.
I was sorry to hear of Ailene Keith’s passing away in White House, Tennessee. She is a native of DeKalb County. She and her late husband Wilson Keith lived in Smithville most of their life. Wilson took care of the Keith Cemetery for quite awhile.
Carlon and Jenette Mabe took Mable Pack to Captain D’s Friday evening for a catfish dinner for her birthday in McMinnville.
Sympathy to the family of Shirley Southard in her death.
Thelma Evans, Christine Arnold, Michelle and Allie Patton, Sue McCoig and Billie Sutton visited Ruth Sutton.
Like many others, I have my favorite television programs that I look forward to watching each day. I also try to use my time for other things such as reading, working puzzles and talking on the telephone.
I was thinking this week about how it was back in the 1950s before we got our own television. Our first television was a loaner from Willie and Annie Ferrell, who got it from one of their children.
Mr. and Mrs. Ferrell did not have electricity in their home, which was located on what is now the Vickers’ Hollow Road. We lived on New Home Road in a house that now belongs to Richard Close and his family. 
We had electricity, so we were loaned the television and it became the center of attention in our community, especially on certain nights when programs came on such as The Ozark Mountain Jubilee. The show was popular and helped to further the careers of Jim Ed Brown, Red Foley, Carl Smith, Faron Young and many others.
I remember watching the Jubilee square dancers and how Mr. Ferrell would usually comment that he saw no harm in square dancing even though some might think it sinful.
I never tried to dance but always enjoyed the square dancing each year while watching the Smithville Fiddlers Jamboree on my television.